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EdZ
Professor EdZ
Reged: 02/15/02
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Loc: Cumberland, R I , USA42N71.4W
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These are the access links to the test data, all posted in separate reports. It'll take some time to compile all this into a full article, but it's in the near future. In the mean time.
Small Binoculars Test Data added Oct 2007 thru Jan 2008
this series of posts lists "preliminary" test data gathered on ~30 small binoculars
including 7x50, 8x40, 8x42, 8x45, 8x56, 10x50, 10x60, 10x70 and 12x50, porros and roofs
Small Binoculars - Features, ie.; wt, coat, wp
Small Binoculars - ER and IPD
Small Binoculars - Resolution
Small Binoculars - notes on FOV
Small Binoculars - Image quality
Small binoculars - Exit Pupil & Aperture (and Magnification)
Small binoculars - Eye Relief and TFOV vs Spec
Small Binoculars - Illumination of the Exit Pupil
Small Binoculars - Limiting Magnitude of point sources
Small Binoculars - Roof Prism Comparison
Small Binoculars - Illuminance (tested with a light meter)
Small Binoculars - Curvature and Depth of Field
Determining Apparent Field of View (AFOV)
Few 50mm Binoculars handheld vs mounted
Nikon 8x40 Action EX vs 8x40 Action VII
Fujinon BFL 8x42 and 10x42
Celestron Regal LX 8x42 and 10x42 Roof
Notes on two 10x42 roofs and four 8x40s
M1 & M78 Observed in 10x50s 10x42s 8x42/40s
FOV Sharpness in Three 10x50s Nikon AE, Nikon Action & Bushnell Legend
42mm Roof Prims Binocs
Small Binocular Reports The 10x50s nine 10x50 binoculars compared
Vixen Foresta 7x50 porro
Leupold Yosemite 6x30
Seeing Differences in equally sized binoculars
Some of the Best Measured
And finally The Score
Small Binoculars - The Score
These are the binoculars inculded in the Small Binocular Studies. All these reside in my photo gallery and can be viewed, perhaps more easily by accessing the Binocular gallery from the Main Index page and sorting the Binocular Gallery by latest. edz
Binocular Gallery
The 8s lineup
The 10s lineup
The 12s
The 7s
unfortunately I started selling off binos before I thought to take the group pictures.
Missing - Orion Ultraview 10x50, Pentax PCF WP 10x50, Mariner 10x60, Oberwerk 8x56.
ALL the rest
the 8s spread out
the 10s spread out
the Roofs
Oberwerk Mariners
Garrett Classics
Fujinons
Nikon Superior Es
Nikon Action Extremes
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Edited by EdZ (10/15/09 03:38 PM)
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